The Prize is a 1962 novel by American writer Irving Wallace concerning the annual prize-giving ceremony of the Nobel Prize. A film of the same name, based on the book and starring Paul Newman, was made later in 1963. Six people all around the world are catapulted to international fame as they receive the most important telegraph of their lives, which invites them to Stockholm to receive the prize. This will be a turning point in their lives, in which personal affairs and political intrigue will engulf every one of the characters.
Adaptations (1)
The Prize was adapted into a 1963 film.
The Prize1963 · film · 134 min · dir. Mark Robson · IMDb ↗IMDb6.845%A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
